John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
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Loraine Despres (1938) Novelist/screen writer
Source: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 6
Context: The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
Charles Bukowski book Hollywood
Source: Hollywood
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
“"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) Colombian writer and philosopher
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
Robert Cormier book The Rag and Bone Shop
Source: The Rag and Bone Shop (2000), p. 22
“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
